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Show GERMAN OPINION OF AMERICANS Prominent Men Sneer at United States and Predict Defeat for This Country. LONDON, April 4. 10:10 p. m. Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent says President Wilson's address to congress has boon answered In tho Gorman press by a storm of abuse. Ho qotos the Rhonlscho Wcstfallscho Zeltung as follows: "Beyond striving for gold, tho Americans havo no Ideal. They think everything can be accomplished bv gold. Their megalomania makes a grotesque Impression on us Germans." Ger-mans." The newspaper expresses the belief that tho accession of tho United States will mean only transitory addition to the entente's strength. Tho artlclo concludes by giving reasons for believing that the collapse col-lapse of Germany's enemies is imminent. immi-nent. It says further: "Great events are pending In tho west. The grey spectre of starvation starva-tion stretches Its claws over England. Chaos reigns in Russia. It is too late for tho United States to change the coming decision." Prof. Richard Festor of Hallo university, uni-versity, writing to tho Dusseldorf General Rnzeiger: "While President Wilson entangles tho new world In tho squabblos of the old, General Car-ranza Car-ranza works for the Idea that the American Btates should draw around their continent a line of demarcation against the world war. When the dwarf scoffs at tho giant It may be assumed that he has a feeling feel-ing of security, which, of all the powers, pow-ers, only Japan can at the present time give him. If President WIlBon places himself In our path he will bo blown out of the way militarily, mili-tarily, as twice already he has been lifted from the saddle diplomatically." n |